RE: Neighbors Were Robbed

My brother and I ran into some friends we grew up with last week. There dad was a big tomato farmer and they still own his packing shed. The place is fenced in and has been robbed three times each time they cut locks and went in. They stole everything metal even a fork lift. Each time they reported it to police and then went around finding their stuff at local scrap yards. They got names and addresses of thieves and turned into police, No arrests. Police say they haven't got to it yet. Months have gone by and still waiting. They finally dumped big loads of dirt in front of each entrance to keep the thieves out. So the other day they get a call from a friend to tell them he had just passed their packing shed and there was an old man with a pickup truck and a shovel loading up their dirt.
Around here the police are after the real criminals. The despicable people driving a few miles over the speed limit on there way to work and Don't have there seat belts on.
Ron

they are in on it

The very same thing happened to me a few yrs. back, the thieves went across co. line you would have thought they went to the moon! I had to get the STATE POLICE involved myself, no local help. I then got something done, three months later the judge gave them a good stern lecture!! I showed em! Now if I hear a thief I call the Insurance Co.!

Your on the money, go down the highway around here between 5am and 8am and there is a deputy car or state trooper behind every tree waiting to give people going to work a little tax increase, come 12 noon when the welfare riders and crackheads get around to going after some beer and cigarettes you won't see a single cop. A working person has to pay the fine and keep their license so they can keep their job, the parasites will go to jail and eat free groceries and get their rotten teeth fixed and go to the doctor.

We live out in the country also and police responce time is measured in hours. They get really iritated if you call them out on a SIMPLE break in. There is not a single piece of property around here that is vacant that hasn't been utterly destroyed. People have left on vacation and come back to find that they have been cleaned out. Names have been given to the cops but we all get the same answer," if we don't catch them in the act, there is nothing we can do." It will take someone getting ventilated to quiet them down for awhile. Sad for people that have been victimized

I couldn"t agree with you more about the cops in rural area being virtually useless and corrupt. But it not just caused by the cops. Look at the county government who are probably in cohoots with with them. What is need is a county attorney (commonwheath attorney in VA)who is honest but good luck on that. In my county, Westmoreland Co, VA, over the last twenty years or so two commonwhealth attorney have been convicted of felonies.

i have come up with the conclusion that cops are sectary's for the insurance company's. they come out to your robbed house to make a report for your insc co. the state don't make money on reports, only speeders etc. call and tell that some armored car's back door flew open and money flying out, watch how fast they respond.

"To protect and serve" Yea Right!! Most likely "To come out and pick you up after your shot and serve you up to the undertaker"

Neighbors reported B & E last july. No investigation started until Nov., didn"t even go look at it. Interviewed first suspect last week. 6 more to go. Will be 2020 before they actually go to the scene to see if there really was a B&E. A fifth grader can see where this will end up.

Sorry so many of you have had a tough time of it. I spent 23 years as a rural cop investigating these burglaries (they aren't robberies). Put quite a few people in jail, some in prison. Nothing irks me as much as a thief violating someone else's property.

There is a thin line between a cop and a criminal
and in my opinion a cop is a person too sorry to do anything else

~Will

I have a grain bin that is only about fifteen feet from the county road. It is the only thing left of that farm site. I never worried about corn being stolen because there is no electric on the bin. We only store dry corn in it and when we empty it I bring my generator and the auger motor off of a bin at my house. Last year I came by it and noticed that the door was open. Someone had opened the door and then opened the small slide that is behind the door. I went up top and checked how much they had taken. They had not taken maybe five bushels. What really PO me was that they had left the slide open and it ran a pile of corn on the ground that had gotten rained on. I cleaned the pile up and installed a pad lock on the bin door.

Four weeks later the door was open again. This time they destroyed the door to get it open while it was locked. Same song on the corn. I had to go buy a new door, $295.00. This time I welded steel straps across the door with a pad lock on each one.

Four weeks later I was checking the bin the door was fine. Around on the back side there was a four inch hole in the first bin sheet. They had taken a hole saw and cut a hole in the bin. This really steamed me. I had called the Sheriff each time and they just took the report over the phone because it was under five hundred dollars in value. This time I called them and asked if I needed to report that there where drug left at the scene so they would show up. I had a "officer" there in less than one hour. All he did was take two pictures and tell me that was all he could do.
I bought a motion activated camera. Again in four weeks the patch was taken off of the hole in the bin. I got pictures of two men bagging ten bags of corn and putting it into their big Escalade. Yes they had a forty thousand dollar vehicle stealing sacks of corn!!!! I took the pictures to the sheriff. They arrested the guys. They where feeding thier girl friend"s horses. Got a small fine and probation. I did not get anything for my corn.
I did go by where they lived and had a little talk about how I DID own several guns. I have not had any more corn stolen but the law was useless and had to be forced to do thier job.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for law enforcement. It's the politicians that turn our cops into tax collectors that I'd like to tar and feather.

Writing tickets is profitable. Chasing down criminals and incarcerating them costs money.

Yeah, I've heard the same thing from a lot of welfare bums and other idiots. Thanks for confirming my suspicions.